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For the table game: four players, real tiles, Hong Kong style — not the solitaire puzzle.
In Hong Kong scoring you add it up: a win starts at a base, then every named pattern and bonus the hand contains adds its own value on top, and the total is what the losers pay — using your table’s numbers, not a universal price list.
The arithmetic is genuinely simple once you see one hand done end to end. Take a hand of four triplets and a pair, one of the triplets being red dragons, won off a discard. On the legacy additive reference sheet:
That is 1 + 6 + 1 = 8. The two lines stack because they describe different things about the same tiles — one is the hand's shape, the other is which tiles — and Hong Kong scoring adds across those axes freely.
What it does not do is count the same thing twice. A hand that is entirely one suit scores Full Flush and not also Half Flush; the bigger reading absorbs the smaller. Those exclusions are the only real subtlety in the count.
Then the total becomes money. Won off a discard, the thrower pays 8 and the other two pay nothing. Self-drawn, all three pay 8 each — so the same tiles move 8 or 24 depending only on where the last tile came from. And on a table using a doubling curve rather than an additive sheet, that 8 is looked up first and the money is larger again.
One last gate: the total has to clear the table minimum of 3. A hand that completes but names nothing — a Chicken Hand, worth just the base — cannot be declared at a table that requires 3.
Unless another sheet is named, examples use the legacy additive reference sheet. Fresh installs select Half Spicy, whose hand values and payments differ. Check the sheet selected for your table.
The same hand, four pungs with one of red dragons, won off a discard, passed to Mahjiku's scoring engine:
| Line the engine found | 中文 | Faan |
|---|---|---|
| Dragon Pung | 箭刻 | 1 |
| All Triplets | 對對糊 | 6 |
| Base | 底 | 1 |
| Total | 8 |
8, the same as the sum above. To price a hand of your own, tick its lines in the calculator.
Last updated: 2026-10-24 · editorially reviewed 2026-10-10. Every Hong Kong number on this page is computed from Mahjiku's rule sheets when the page is built.
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